MHP Housing News Rounduphttp://www.mhp.net/
To keep in touch with what's going on at the local level, Massachusetts Housing Partnership regularly summarizes and links to housing stories that have appeared in newspapers around the state.en-usTue, 14 Aug 2018 21:14:27 +0000Tue, 14 Aug 2018 21:14:27 +0000Hanover: Mall redevelopment plan unveiledhttp://www.patriotledger.com/news/20180809/apartment-plan-for-hanover-mall-prompts-concerns
Fri, 10 Aug 2018 11:00:00 +0000rlodi@mhp.net10006HANOVER --- During a community meeting held inside the the former JC Penney store, residents wondered about the municipal impacts of a $250 million plan to demolish the enclosed Hanover Mall and redevelop it with an open-air complex that would combine retail, entertainment and 297 apartments marketed to empty-nesters and young professionals.Falmouth: 43 sr units proposed for Woods Hole motor innhttp://www.capecodtimes.com/news/20180809/developer-wins-draft-approval-for-senior-living-facility-in-woods-hole
Fri, 10 Aug 2018 10:00:00 +0000rlodi@mhp.net10007FALMOUTH --- Plans to turn the former Nautilus Motor Inn into an independent senior living complex are alive again, as new owner Mark Bogosian has asked the Cape Cod Commission to approve a slightly altered development plan that the commission OK'd for the previous owner back in 2008. Bogosian's main change is to construct 43 apartments in seven buildings rather than one large building, which the original plan proposed.Billerica: Former golf site eyed for senior housinghttp://www.lowellsun.com/news/ci_32044277/former-rangeway-golf-location-could-become-senior-housing
Fri, 10 Aug 2018 09:30:00 +0000rlodi@mhp.net10008BILLERICA --- Hawthorn Retirement Group is proposing to redevelop the former Rangeway golf location into 151 apartments for the elderly. The proposal is the latest of several housing developments in town, which include the 384-unit mixed-income Aspen Regency Apartments, the 179-unit mixed-income Alpine Village apartments and a 200-unit "friendly 40B" by Alliance Residential at the corner of the Middlesex Turnpike and Lexington Road.Greenfield: Board votes to end homeless camphttps://www.recorder.com/Homeless-residents-on-common-ordered-off-by-Aug-20-19360802
Thu, 09 Aug 2018 13:00:00 +0000rlodi@mhp.net9999GREENFIELD --- Sympathetic that the homeless have no other place to go but concerned that the camp has grown and is raising public health issues, the Greenfield Board of Health has voted to order the homeless to leave their camp on the downtown Common by Aug. 20. Simultaneously, Mayor William Martin is working to create temporary housing for some of the homeless at the former Clinical & Support Options office near downtown.Haverhill: Mayor urges bond to support Lupoli high risehttp://www.eagletribune.com/news/haverhill/council-questions-borrowing-to-support-lupoli-project/article_3dfc93f0-fe88-5565-95c4-ddc8bdadfa80.html
Thu, 09 Aug 2018 12:00:00 +0000rlodi@mhp.net9998HAVERHILL --- Mayor James Fiorentini is urging the Haverhill City Council to approve a $1.12 million bond that would cover public infrastructure costs associated with developer Sal Lupoli's plans to build a 10-story building near the Merrimack River. The city had planned to use state funds to build a parking garage and a boardwalk extension but the two projects turned out to be more expensive than anticipated and the grant money was lost at the end of the fiscal year, causing the city to seek a local solution. "The state has made it clear to us we got millions and millions in MassWorks money. ... We've tapped out as much as we can of other resources. It's time for us to step up to the plate," Fiorentini said.Fall River: Disabled moved into elderly propertieshttp://www.heraldnews.com/news/20180807/concerns-raised-as-fall-river-housing-authority-moves-disabled-residents-into-elderly-properties
Thu, 09 Aug 2018 11:00:00 +0000rlodi@mhp.net9997FALL RIVER — During a period when it failed to submit a new housing plan with the federal government, the Fall River Housing Authority moved approximately 15 young disabled residents into housing that was for years designated as elderly. The plan, due in April but filed in August, designates which properties will house elderly, families and the disabled. During the period when the plan elapsed, elderly residents began complaining that their facility was no longer elderly only.
Falmouth: OKs 40B permit for 10 Habitat homeshttps://www.capenews.net/falmouth/news/falmouth-zba-approves-habitat-for-humanity-b-project/article_f1bd54b4-5b12-5b7d-aff2-ae487277a27a.html
Wed, 08 Aug 2018 17:59:27 +0000rlodi@mhp.net9993FALMOUTH --- By a 4-0 vote that was followed by a round of applause from the 30 people in attendance, the Falmouth Zoning Board of appeals approved a Ch. 40B comprehensive land use permit for Habitat for Humanity's plan to build 10 single-family homes on a 5.5 acre site off Barrows Road. To be known as Willett Way, the development will feature seven three-bedroom homes and three two-bedroom homes. The land was purchased with $340,000 in Community Preservation Act funds.Hudson: Developer pitches 270 apts in overlay zonehttp://www.metrowestdailynews.com/news/20180807/apartment-complex-proposed-in-hudson
Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:00:00 +0000rlodi@mhp.net9992HUDSON --- Local developer George Danis is proposing to knock down three industrial buildings in the town's Adaptive Re-Use Overlay District near downtown and constructing 270 one- and two-bedroom apartments and a 2,300 square foot market. Early reaction from residents and the planning board focused on the size of the project, given the overlay district only allows for 150 units.Hamilton: Trust eyes new agreement with Harborlighthttp://wenham.wickedlocal.com/news/20180718/longmeadow-willow-deal-for-affordable-housing-now-in-reach
Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:00 +0000rlodi@mhp.net9991HAMILTON --- The town's efforts to work with the nonprofit Harborlight Community Partners to build affordable housing along Longmeadow Way appears to be picking up momentum again, with the town's local affordable housing trust set to vote on a new agreement that would call for 48 to 100 units on the site, with the trust pledging up to $500,000 to support making the apartments affordable. The new agreement comes a month after the trust voted to grant Harborlights $300,000 to support an affordable housing development of up to 20 apartments for seniors on Willow St. Harborlight has maintained throughout its discussions that the financial feasibility of developing Willow St. depends on the nonprofit being able to develop housing elsewhere in town.Report: Hub lux rents down; everything else uphttp://www.wbur.org/bostonomix/2018/08/06/boston-metro-rents-june-zillow
Tue, 07 Aug 2018 12:00:00 +0000rlodi@mhp.net9979Working off a Washington Post analysis that rents have fallen for the highest earners while increasing for the poorest in several American cities, WBUR's Benjamin Swasey asked the real estate data firm Zillow for metro Boston numbers and found rents in Greater Boston have increased for everyone, but less so for the top tier of the market. Swasey found that the median rent in the most expensive third of the local market increased 20 percent from June 2011 to June 2018. For the bottom third, it's risen 27 percent. For the middle third, it's increased 32 percent.